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An Orange County judge ruled late Thursday that a drifter who bludgeoned a Huntington Harbour woman to death on a beachside road nearly 30 years ago will not be released from a state mental hospital to an outpatient facility due to concerns that he remains a potential danger to the community. Leonard Patton never went…
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I get asked a ton of questions about what surfing was like back when I was growing up in the thick of it during the 1960s. It was the “Golden Era” for surfing in California and let me give a little background how that came to be. Leading up to the late 1950s, surfing was…
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No. 22 UCLA (2-0) at No. 11 Utah (3-0) When: 12:30 p.m. Saturday Where: Rice-Eccles Stadium, Salt Lake City, Utah TV/radio: FOX (Ch. 11) / 570 AM Line: Utah by 5.5 Notable injuries: UTAH: QUESTIONABLE: QB Cam Rising (ACL), TE Brant Kuithe (ACL), WR Devaughn Vele (undisclosed), WR Mycah Pittman (undisclosed); UCLA: QUESTIONABLE: WR Titus…
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By Lauran Neergaard | Associated Press WASHINGTON — Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life – only the second patient to ever undergo such an experimental feat. Two days later, the man was cracking jokes and able to sit in a chair, Maryland doctors said…
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The next salvo in labor protests lands Oct. 4 when 75,000 healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente could walk off the job, protesting what they say is bad-faith bargaining by the Oakland-based healthcare provider. The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, comprised of at least a dozen unions at Kaiser facilities in seven states, issued a 10-day…
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CASARES, Spain — With the help of a hole-in-one, a hole-out from the fairway and a chip-in, Europe rallied against the United States after being swept in the opening foursome matches at the Solheim Cup, winning two of the afternoon fourball matches to reduce the Americans’ lead to 5-3 on Friday. Emily Pedersen made a…
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By Josh Boak, Stephen Groves and Lisa Mascaro | Associated Press WASHINGTON — The White House is preparing Friday to direct federal agencies to get ready for a shutdown after House Republicans left town for the weekend with no viable plan to keep the government funded and avert politically and economically costly disruption of federal…
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By Lisa Respers France | CNN Weight loss drugs are getting a lot of attention these days, and now Oprah Winfrey is weighing in on the topic. While hosting her Oprah Daily’s “The Life You Want Class: The State of Weight,” the mogul said she was “ready for this conversation.” “You all know I’ve been…
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Poet Jodie Hollander was exploring the beauty of Arizona’s Walnut Canyon National Monument when an idea came to her. “I was so inspired and struck by the beauty of the place that it occurred to me, ‘Wouldn’t it be incredible if people could have an opportunity to really deepen their connection to their public lands…
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Moira Macdonald | (TNS) The Seattle Times For this month’s edition of The Plot Thickens, I decided to take a little meander into crime fiction set in the past. (Because the present, i.e. the endless late summer, was just too hot. Reading cools one down, I think.) First up: Amy Chua’s fiction debut “The Golden…
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